Just right there we have 15 national championship winning coaches from several different conferences who no longer coach.

Now, some of these coaches have NCAA issues in their past so there’s probably a need to set parameters to allow an individual to serve on the committee. For instance, Jim Tressel, currently serving a five-year NCAA show cause would be out of the mix.

But this group of coaches would make a great foundation for the committee.

After all who knows the fiber of a national champion college football team better than the coaches who actually have won national titles?

Sure, there are bias worries. As Phil Fulmer noted to OKTC, “I don’t know if a coach can do it without bias either, but I think we would try. It’s always difficult to be unbiased.”

Fulmer’s acknowledgment points out what would be a certain criticism of the group, how can Texas A&M and Alabama’s Gene Stallings or Florida State’s Bobby Bowden accurately vote for or against their former teams?

They can’t, bias will exist on some level no matter how much you try to erase it. But fortunately it’s unlikely that a particular school will be on the four vs. five border very often.

So a clear bias wouldn’t arise very often.

Plus, this is why geographic and conference diversity is important. You can balance out the bias by having representatives of multiple conferences serving on the committee.

Finally, in the present system we allow current coaches to vote for the teams that should play for the title.

Talk about a clear bias.

Using former coaches eliminates this bias.

What’s more there’s already a coaching legends poll that includes national title winning coaches like Alabama’s Gene Stallings, Florida State’s Bowden, USC’s John Robinson and Georgia’s Vince Dooley.